Unlike Johnny Carson’s Carnac character (pictured at left), there are serious and legitimate ways to predict how your traffic will respond to your site’s content. A new service from Adobe’s SearchCenter+ and features from the existing service from Visual Revenue are both trying to be more helpful in optimizing your content and ad buys for your…

In early December a Supernova session entitled, How Startup Companies Can Change the World had presenters brainstorm ways to connect the technology industry with policy makers. Coupled with many of the discussions already taking place in the Gov. 2.0 movement, the session looked at how technologists can contribute to projects they might not…

Everyone has used, or at least seen, a shortened URL. In fact, ReadWriteWeb has reported on services such as bit.ly, krunchd, SnipURL and others. The better ones also generate statistics on the URL itself, like how many times it was shared, and from what originating site. But ReadBurner (the RSS leaderboard site, currently awaiting relaunch) has…